Lee Grant Quotes
What goes on between a father and a son, which is usually such a private matter, is that they are able to be honest with each other, and be honest with me, as a director. It's just remarkable.
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There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they've been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn't just an opportunity, it's their due.
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What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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My daughter is, of course, perfect. Everyone's child is, but mine really is perfect. But I could not have raised her without my parents. From the time she was seven months until now, I have been a single parent.
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I try very hard to be bad, but people never take me seriously.
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In the studio, there's no tiptoeing. As opposed to big, blow-out arguments, there are just lots of little solutions.
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Some movies to me are like vampires – they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like that. I like to give the audience energy if I can.
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Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.
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I think you can do science fiction, but you have to ground it in some realism. People need to identify with the characters, with their plights and their issues.
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We have done a lot of work on cost reduction, getting ourselves lean, reducing our breakeven, reducing our fixed cost and increasing exports. All of these factors help because our export basket is not just automotive but also includes industrial products, railways and others.
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What the world is saying to us human beings is, 'Don't stick to the old ways, learn to think anew.' And that's what musicians do every day.
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I don't use my body to seduce, no. I just stand there.
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The unique instrument to eradicate poverty and usher in prosperity is our youth.
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Eating together is the most intimate form of kinship. By scripting a work where we share the same kind of food with fish, I'm scripting our interrelationship with them.
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Kids are disorganized.
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Let us love one another as God loves each one of us. And where does this love begin? In our own home. How does it begin? By praying together.
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My son is such a lover, such a caretaker and so funny. He's seven, and he genuinely cracks me up. And my daughter is a fearless powerhouse. They fill me with wonder and admiration.
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The questions about my father are inevitable, regardless of the characters I create or the subject matter.
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My mother is the reason I'm in fashion. She worshiped it. Unfortunately, she infected me.
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For me, leaving the Marine Corps was more disorienting than returning home.
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What goes on between a father and a son, which is usually such a private matter, is that they are able to be honest with each other, and be honest with me, as a director. It's just remarkable.
